On 09/21/2016 06:32 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:
The people in those Crown Colonies that became United States started refusing to pay taxes and surcharges, ignoring the orders of Crown authorities, and constructing their own systems of commerce and governance long before that "shot heard 'round the world." The Revolutionary War was more a response to a campaign by the Crown to take the Colonies back over, than a struggle to kick established rulers out. That is why the Revolutionary War had the necessary organization and mass public support to succeed.
There was no American Revolution. Revolutions are based on ideology. Greed IS NOT an ideology. ("...started refusing to pay taxes and surcharges, ignoring the orders of Crown authorities, and constructing their own systems of commerce..." That favored ***THEIR*** WHITE RICH MALE interests.) Rr
On 09/21/2016 08:34 PM, Razer wrote:
On 09/21/2016 12:03 PM, Xer0Dynamite wrote:
Show me the Law(s) that makes it so.
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Guns make it so. Law enforcement owns about 99.9% of all the military style weaponry.
Collusion between Legislators, Judges, Prosecutors and other attorneys make it so. Software code is interpreted by machines without conflicts of interest or hands out for bribes. Legal code is interpreted by semi-humans who chose "power over others" as their career path and invested a lot of energy and money in gaining that power .
We managed to preserve our right to keep military grade rifles and machine guns, so we all muster down on the Town Common with our guns.
We tried voting.
We tried protesting.
This is a reasonable time to start with the armed insurrection stuff.
A reasonable time to demonstrate the painful ignorance and delusional beliefs our rulers have given us, to assure that we stay ruled. Armed insurrection, before the revolution process has even started, is a gesture of suicide/surrender we have been taught to perform. Think of it as the ultimate act of obedience to established authority.
A revolution is won or lost before the first publicly acknowledged shot is fired. The shooting war is the last phase, its purpose to pry the fingers of a stubborn ruling class off the levers of power /after/ their rule has already been rendered obsolete and irrelevant by changes in the actual economic and social behavior of their subjects. Otherwise it's a coup, not a revolution. A revolution is "the world turned upside down." A coup just changes out the old bastards for a new set of bastards, usually worse ones.
The people in those Crown Colonies that became United States started refusing to pay taxes and surcharges, ignoring the orders of Crown authorities, and constructing their own systems of commerce and governance long before that "shot heard 'round the world." The Revolutionary War was more a response to a campaign by the Crown to take the Colonies back over, than a struggle to kick established rulers out. That is why the Revolutionary War had the necessary organization and mass public support to succeed.
I found the bits of this essay addressing the Revolutionary War very interesting, largely because I had not previously seen anything similar in print anywhere:
http://www.fragmentsweb.org/fourtx/dishist.pdf
:o)